Faculty and graduate students are warmly invited to join us later today for an afternoon focusing on Digital Humanities in research and teaching, hosted by Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt, with co-sponsorship from the Department of French and Italian.

Event Details
Humanities Center, Cathedral of Learning, Room 602
November 20, 2014
2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Professor Edelstein (PhD University of Pennsylvania, 2004) is Professor of French and, by courtesy, of History, at Stanford University. He is a leading figure in the large-scale, NEH-funded digital humanities project, Mapping the Republic of Letters: http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/

Dan will offer a two-part event at our Humanities Center. First, he will give a lecture on Stanford’s Mapping project, with a demonstration of their visualization tools. Following a break (we hope to offer coffee, juice, cookies), Dan will lead a general discussion on the potential and perils of Digital Humanities in research and teaching. We expect to be joined by Pitt faculty experts in Digital Humanities as further interlocutors. We hope for a lively, interdisciplinary audience in eighteenth-century studies and indeed well beyond.

All Humanities and Social Science faculty and graduate students are welcome to join us for all or part of the afternoon.